Lighthouse is a great way to establish a build-measure-learn feedback loop resulting in continuous value creation by testing ideas in the areas of SEO, performance, accessibility, and more. In this article, I’ll cover what Lighthouse is and how to add it a project with examples covering pure Javascript (node) projects and Gradle projects (with any … Continue reading Lighthouse Performance Testing
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Linters: Keys To Secure, Maintainable, Quality DevSecOps
Linters are static analysis tools that analyze source code and report problems. The term goes all the way back to Bell Labs in 1978 but the concept is still very important today. In my opinion, linters are a key ingredient of a successful DevSecOps implementation, and yet not enough people are aware of linters, how … Continue reading Linters: Keys To Secure, Maintainable, Quality DevSecOps
Compression (deflate) and HTML, CSS, JS Minification in ASP.NET
As I’ve already demonstrated, I like performance. So I cache and compress a lot. When I was put onto an ASP.NET project at work, I obviously wanted to optimize the site, so here’s what I did. Taking some hints from Y! Slow, I decided I wanted to: Get rid of all the MS AJAX/toolkit javascript, … Continue reading Compression (deflate) and HTML, CSS, JS Minification in ASP.NET
CSS Color Shorthand not supported in Adobe Flash
Flash doesn’t support CSS color shorthand – an obscure feature of CSS that I bet not many know about. CSS color shorthand defines that whenever a both hex digits in a color component of a CSS color are the same, you can eliminate one digit to reduce the color definition from 6 digits (2 each … Continue reading CSS Color Shorthand not supported in Adobe Flash